Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation

7 pending office actions • 5 art units • 7 examiners • 0 of 7 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 36 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

7
Total Pending OAs
4
Non-Final OAs
3
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
3
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
0
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 7 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (3)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

0
Hard (0%)
7
Medium (100%)
0
Easy (0%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (100%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

0
Life Sciences
0% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
7
Semiconductors
100% of docket
0
Mechanical / Eng
0% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

70 h
Manual time on pending OAs
14 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
24 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.6 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
PEACE, RHONDA S 1 85.4% +12.5%
WARD, ERIC A 1 77.5% +13.5%
CHEN, JACK S J 1 76.6% +5.7%
JUNGE, BRYAN R. 1 57.7% +9.0%
AHMED, SHAHED 1 90.7% +0.2%
NICELY, JOSEPH C 1 77.3% +20.1%
BLACKWELL, ASHLEY NICOLE 1 98.2% +2.9%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17826181 MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS) DEVICE and fabrication method thereof BLACKWELL, ASHLEY NICOLE 44d overdue
18097286 HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF AHMED, SHAHED 42d overdue
18382064 SILICON PHOTONIC PLATFORM, METHOD FOR FORMING COMPOSITE PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR FORMING SILICON PHOTONIC PLATFORM PEACE, RHONDA S 22d

Interview Candidates (3)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18226764 HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF WARD, ERIC A 10d overdue
18059265 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME NICELY, JOSEPH C 14d
18382064 SILICON PHOTONIC PLATFORM, METHOD FOR FORMING COMPOSITE PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR FORMING SILICON PHOTONIC PLATFORM PEACE, RHONDA S 22d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2897 2
2813 2
2874 1
2891 1
2893 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18382064 SILICON PHOTONIC PLATFORM, METHOD FOR FORMING COMPOSITE PLATFORM AND METHOD FOR FORMING SILICON PHOTONIC PLATFORM PEACE, RHONDA S 2874 §103 Final Rejection 22d Pending Oct 20, 2023
18226764 HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF WARD, ERIC A 2891 §103 Non-Final OA 10d overdue Pending Jul 26, 2023
18343617 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FORMING THE SAME CHEN, JACK S J 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 12d Pending Jun 28, 2023
18168321 OPTICAL SENSOR DEVICE JUNGE, BRYAN R. 2897 §103 Final Rejection 18d overdue Pending Feb 13, 2023
18097286 HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR AND FABRICATION METHOD THEREOF AHMED, SHAHED 2813 §103 Final Rejection 42d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2023
18059265 SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE AND METHODS FOR FORMING THE SAME NICELY, JOSEPH C 2813 §103 Non-Final OA 14d Pending Nov 28, 2022
17826181 MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS) DEVICE and fabrication method thereof BLACKWELL, ASHLEY NICOLE 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 44d overdue Pending May 27, 2022

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